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-hád

(suffix)
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Add: with nouns. marking condition of life, weorold-hád. cf. hád. <b>III. 1.</b> with nouns of persons, marking natural condition, cild -, cniht-. fǽmn-, hægsteald-, mægden-, mægþ-, man-, wer-, wíf- hád. cf. <b>III. 2 a.</b> marking

hás

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Ic swanc hrýmende (clypiende, Ps. Rdr., Spl., Srt.), háse gewordene synt míne góman, Ps. L., Rdr., Spl., Srt. 68, 4. Add

hát

Grammar
hát, heat.
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Hát ácólað ardor frigescit, Angl. i. 285, § 2: ii. 374, 3. Nánwiht þæs hátes ne þæs cealdes, Wlfst. 184, 19. Wið wunda hátum, Lch. i. 84, 20. Add:

hát

(n.)
Grammar
hát, a promise.
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ꝥ hát fadores promissum patris, Lk. p. 11, 14. Add

háw

(n.; suffix)
Grammar
háw, Kemble says, &#39; In all probability, a look out, or prospect&#39;; Middendorff compares the word with -hau in German place-names, and takes it to mean a clearing, a place where trees are cut down (cf. heáwan). But perhaps in the one passage where the word occurs
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hlawe should be read Haec sunt supradictarum uocabula terrarum, aet Uuineshauue (cf. scuccanhlau, 196, 1), C. D. i. 195, 30

ham

(n.)
Grammar
ham, a piece of enclosed land, a ham (v.
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N. E. D.). Add: — Hæfde hió hire gebógod on ánan wyrtigan hamme, Hml. S. 30, 312. On brádan leá on énne ham; þurh út ðone leá súð út on óðerne ham ; of ðan hamme . . . on brádan ham westeweardne; of brádan hamme . . . of mǽde on flexhammas; of flexhamman

hán

(n.)
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a thole Ǽnne scegð .lxiii. ǽre, hé is eallgearo bútan þám hánon; hé hine wolde fulgearwian his hláforde tó gerisnum, Crw. Cht. 23, 8. (?)

Linked entry: hǽnan

haga

(n.)
Grammar
haga, a berry.
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Add: a haw Hagan cinum, Wrt. Voc. ii. 131, 11. [ Cinus an haythorne and an hawe, Wlck. Gl. 572, 45.] used as a type of a thing of no value Hagan gignalia, Wrt. Voc. ii. 42, 16

heow

Grammar
heow, l. heów.

Similar entry: hiw

hér

here . . . there

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Add Sume (adverbs) synd localia, þæt synd stówlice, for ðan ðe hí getácniað stówa . . . hic hér, Ælfc. Gr. Z. 224, 15. Sume cumað of naman speliendan, hic hér, 233, 9. in this place Wé nabbað hér (hic) bútun fíf hlá as, Mt. 14, 17. Gód ys ús hér tó

hér

(adj.)
Grammar
hér, adj.
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Dele

hec

Similar entry: fódder-hec

hecg

(n.)
Grammar
hecg, hegg, e ; f.

A hedgefence

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A hedge, fence In ðá hegce wið westan ðá cotu; ondlonges hegce, C. D. iii. 52, 25. Ǽt ðǽre lange hegge ænde, 385, 7. Bebbanburh wæs ǽrost mid hegge betýned, and þár æfter mid wealle, Chr. 547; P. 16, 20

hege

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To ðǽm mǽrhege; ondlong ðæs mǽres heges, C. D. iii. 32, 30. Tó bysceopes swýnhege; ondlong heges, 77, 11: 78, 6. Oð ðone cwichege; súð andlang heges, 380, 13. Longan méd iacit be norðan hege, ii. 26, 27. Tó ðám ráhhege; æfter ðám hege á be ðám ófre, iii

hel

(n.)
Grammar
hel, hæl (?, for form cf. tæl, tel), es; m.

a shelter

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A hidden spot (f), a shelter Tó Dudemǽres hele; of Dudemǽres hele, C. D. vi. 171, 5: 76, 26. On Ecgerdes hel ufeweardne, iii. 48, 16

hem

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Hem ora loricę, An. Ox. 50, 51. Feald þú mid þínre swíðran hande þane hem þínes wynstran earmstoces ofer þínne wynstran scytefinger, Tech. ii. 128, 2. Add

heóf

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Heóf luxus (= luctus), weópan luxerunt, Wrt. Voc. ii. 51, 33. Þǽr (in hell) is wánung and gránung and aa singal heóf, Wlfst. 94, 3. Se hlúda heóf, 186, 19. Nán þincg gehýred næs búton seó geómerung þæs heófes, Hml. S. 23 b, 203. In þám heófe þæs feóndes

haga

(n.)
Grammar
haga, an; m.

A place fenced in, an enclosure, a haw, a dwelling in a townyarda yard, or enclosurea hedged field, a pasture

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A place fenced in, an enclosure, a haw, a dwelling in a town Haga sæpem, Mk. Skt. Lind. 12, 1. Se haga binnan port ðe Ægelríc himsylfan getimbrod hæfde the messuage within the town that Ægelric had built himself, Cod. Dipl. Kmbl. iv. 86, 26 : Th. Chart

haga

(n.)
Grammar
haga, an; m.

A haw, berry of the hawthorn; also used to signify any thing of no valuefrute cinum, cornum, ramnum

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A haw, berry of the hawthorn; also used to signify any thing of no value [?], [cf. Chaucer's 'not worth an hawe'] Hagan gignalia, Ælfc. Gl. 47; Som. 65, 24; Wrt. Voc. 33, 24. Hagan quisquilia, 285, 31

hal

(n.)
Grammar
hal, es; n.

A, secret place, a corner

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A, secret place, a corner Ðá gemétte hé hine hleonian on ðam hale his cyrcan wið ðam weofode he found him leaning in the corner of his church against the altar, Guthl. 20; Gdwin. 82, 22. On halum in abditis, Ps. Spl. 16, 13